Little Falls transcript., 1887-02-25

bentlAry, cOnnned fOr partlcipa tlOn In the
rebellion of 1885, were released, and left
for their western homes. Among the num-
was Big Bear, implicated in the Frog Lake
massacre and the abduction OF Mr.. W. J.
Mclean and family.
Sidney Walsh aged twnety. three, is un-
der arrest in Cleveland for committing
| twenty-one burglaries. His wife is in jail
with him as an accompllce.
jealousy caused Watkins Dupay of
Farmville, Va, to shoot and kill his wife
and fatally shoot and stab himself.
Mrs. Richard Jesse is dead at Margate,
England. Her maiden name was Emily
Tennyson, and she was engaged to be mar.
! ried to Arthur Henry Hailam, whose
death prompted Alfred Tennyson to write
! ''1n Memoriam."
A project is on foot in London for send
| ing 5000 Jewish colonists to Mexico to be
| distributed among the agricultural g.
! tricts. The pr posed colonists are VIC
| Tins OF Russian persecution.
The Iowa railroad commissioners have
decided tho case brought from Glenwood
against the Burlington and Quincy, in
which is involved an important applica-
| ton Of the Interstate commerce law. Com
| plaint was made that higher rates from
Iowa points are changed to Glenwood that
| to Council Bluffs, greater distance. The
board held that the principle of the inter-
state commerce bill relative to the long
and short hauls should apply to poiAts
within the state, and to charge more for
longer than short distance is extortion.
Capt William Turtle, one OF the most
noted OF American detectives, died in Chi
cago OF paralysis. His most celebrated
capture was that OF Thomas Morrison and
! William Prout. who robbed this American
Express campany OF SAL 900 in 1866.
Beniamin Calendar & Co., OF Boston,
wholesale hardware, have failed and gone in.
to insolvency. Liabilities, SILT, 900; assets
unknown. The senior partner, Benjamin
Calendar, died a month ago, and the sur.
| vivng partners have found the firm in.
I solvent.
! 1t is alleged that Lieut. John J. Shaw,
Sixth infantry, has been guilty OF duplicat.
ing his pay accounts. He left his station
at Fort Douglas, Utah. on leave OF alb
sence last December, and SO far as heard
from four separate accounts for that
month have been presented through banks
and claim agents, three OF which have been
| paid by paymasters in different parts Of
the country. 1t is feared that the returns
OF the pay department will show q similar
condition in his accounts for the month OF
January. He was last heard from at Hot
Springs.
| Thomas 3. Connery, OF New York, was
confirmed to be secretary OF legation at
the City OF Mexico.
| The president has allowed the act ap-
proprinting 100000 a year to provide
arms and equipments for the militia to
become a law without his signature. His
failure to sign the bill within ten days is
regarded as an oversight, as he was not
known to object to it,
James Russell Lowell will be in London
| again about Easter.
A man arrested for the supposed murder
OF c. A. Scotield, OF Winnipeg, proves to be
Scoield himself
The trial OF Dillon, Redmond, O'Brien
and others, on the charge OF conspiracy
for agitation in favor OF tho plan Of cam
| paign, has opened. 7. Redmond was absent
on account Of illness. Traverse's counsel
! raised several technical points against the
| proceedings.
At the Graves sale OF picture III New
York C. p. Huntington, the railroad
masnate, paid $10,o 200 for one OF Corot's
! pictures.
The estate OF the late Moses Williams oi
! Boston amounts to about 81, ZOO, 900.
! Gen. Banks has farm near Boston
where he spends all his spare cash on
agricultural experiments.
! Senator Davis aud wife Of Minnesota ar
rived in Washington and are quartered at
| Wizards. Senator Davis was taken in
charge on the floor OF the senate by Sena-
tors Spooner and Sabin and introduced
to the more prominent members Of that
body. He made a very favorable impress
| sion.
Postofices established: Minnesota:
Kimball, Stearns county. Wisconsin:
| Saxon, Ashland county. Discontinued
Dakota: Kinloss, Walsh county. Iowa:
Mcknight, Humbolt county. Postmas,
ters misioned-Minnesota Milan, o.
K. Opjordan.
Hiram W. Hall was nominated post.
master at St. Charles, MINI. He
is Democrat and editor and proprie-
tor OF the St. Charles News. His nomina-
ton was secured by Congressman elect
Wilson. Mr.. Hall succeeds John Picket
whose term OF Office has expired.
Telegrams from European capitals are
incre asingly warike. Berlin dispatches as.
sert that the German government has re-
ceived positive al vices OF continued con.
centrations OF French troops in direct
contradiction to the instructions alleged tc
have been issued by Gen. Boulanger. Late
| Paris kilograms confirm the report Of the
| Alsace- Lorraine garrisons being brought
up to war strength and give additional &C
| counts OF heavy movements OF German
troops toward the French frontier. Wen
ma dispatches state that the ministry o.
war have suddenly stopped work or
French and Russia contracts for magazine
rifles, revolvers and munitions OF war a,
all the factories having contracts on hand
All factories are now working exclusively
on small arms and ammunition for the
Austrian government. The press censor
ship at St. Petersburg has to a great ex
tent dried up the source Of information
but through Roumanian channels it is
learned that two complete Russian corps
are completing their concentration in the
southeast and heavy reiDforccments are
going from the interior to the southwest.
panic has seized the people. The water il
some places is four feet deep in many resi-
dences and the same state Of affairs pre-
walls in storerooms. Everybody is NOV
ing or preparing to move.
The president and Mrs. Cleveland at
tsended Wilson Barrett,s performance o
".Hamlet' at the National thea tire. Th
presidential party and other occupants o
the boxes were presented satin programme
fringed with gold, and superb boquets.
John Splan has bought of Louisville
men the black gelding Wilkes, i've year
old, by George Wilkes, own brother to tn
horse Jersey Wilkes, for whom J. iams o
Terre Haute, Ind, some time ago pait
$4,000. Splan paid $500 for the geld
ing, which has no record, but showed re
peated miles in 2:23 last tall as four
year-old.
Brock & Wiener, wholesale clio thing man
ufacturers and dealers, Buffalo, N. Y. hav
assigned. Liabilities, 100000; prefer
ences, $3.50, 900.
Pugilistic weights are: Feathers, up t,
lis pounds light weights, from 115 t,
heavy weights over 15O.
Justices Blachford and Matthews. of tn
supreme BENCH are conceded to be the bes
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